My Side of The Story: June 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Food Trip!!!

Yen Pin and I had planned this for a while after GDW the "Great" told us to have fun as our internship stint was getting a bit boring towards the end. We had NO WORK to do at all (sorry to all my other coursemates who were made to slave for free during the last two months). Lol.

So on a Sunday, we decided to go ahead with our mission to go over to City Square (CS) to eat. Haha. Two greedy people huh? It's kinda fun actually.

We reached CS at about 12. We were starving by then. So we headed to Shihlin to have our favourite chicken meal.

We also noticed that the queue to eat at Kim Gary's was this long. And the restaurants beside Kim Gary's are all almost empty! Poor shops. I feel for them, really.

After the chicken meal, we were kinda full, so Yen Pin decided to torture me with her usual walk around the whole shopping mall, entering into shops after shops, etc. Padini is the the headache one. Belt. No belt. Belt. No belt. Belt. No belt. -Sigh- And there was also shoes. No shoes. Shoes. No shoes. -SIGH!!!!- Did she buy anything at the end? That you gotta wait! Lol

Next was of course bookstores. We always go to the bookstore when we are at CS. There are two pretty huge ones anyway. MPH and Popular. I was actually looking for a Pixar book there but all I came across are Toy Story 3 books (and yes. Like a kid, I read them). Anyway, at MPH, we saw this whole set of books with adjectives as titles. Lol. So we took the ones that best suited us and took pictures of them. Lol!

This is me. I should not have Mr Jelly there. But the rest pretty much tells you about me huh?

You see Mr Mean, who do you think of? OF COURSE that MISS SIU YEN PIN!!!

Nosey=Ryan naturally

-Sigh- Perfect=Greg?????

Right. Moving back to the food now. After all the walking (she makes me walk a lot. Trust me), we (or just me, I think) was a little tired. So we decided to go for pretzels and coffee! So we went to Auntie Anne's for our sour cream and onion pretzel and then to Coffee Bean for our ice blended coffee.

I know this picture don't look too good. There weren't enough light to take this. I'll tell you why. After I placed my order at Coffee Bean and sat, before my butt even got the chance to heat up the chair, the power went out. Half of CS had power failure. Damn! Anyway, we waited for almost an hour, I think for it to come back on and at the end, we gave up. I'm supposed to get my refund but I don't think I have till now. :( So no Coffee Bean. Just pretzels. :(

Not to be defeated, we were determine to at least have something cold. So we went to the "darker side" of CS to get shave ice. Peanut and chocolate. Me favourite!

Penguin! Lol

And then it was back to walk and not shop. Lol. Money's the key factor her. And surprise, surprise. Back to PADINI. Back to the shoe section. Back to shoes. No shoes. Shoes. No shoes. And then to the belt. No belt. Belt. No belt. All over again. BUT!!!! At the end, it was belt and no shoes. At least she bought something! Grrrr... Lol. -Relieved-

Then we went to the book exhibition by Popular. They had one at the concourse area. Huge space for them. They offered crazy discounts too. We went around the area and then got stuck in the art area. One guess why. It ain't that hard right? Lol. And Yen Pin got crazy, literally cuckoo nuts with all the cute stickers. That alone killed like 10 minutes. I realised now that she is a sucker for cute stuffs. Lol. Kinda cute actually. Her reaction that is. Anyway, there, we killed a whole hour and got hungry again.

Dinner? Nando's!!! My yummy, yummy marinated chicken. Yen Pin loves it too since I introduced it to her. No franchise in Kuching. Sad eh?

After this meal, we decided that we've stuffed ourselves enough for one day. Lol. Finally huh? But trust me, if there was still space in our tummies, Yen Pin would have gotten her J Co donuts. Lol.

Anyhow, now I will present you the sad part of the trip. The heart breaker.

We descended the escalator and walked towards that yellow machine. Yes! That yellow, money eating parking ticket machine. Argh!!! We inserted our parking ticket and guess the amount we had to play! RM14! FOURTEEN!!! That is the most expensive parking ever to me. -Sigh- Heartache. But we've gotten over it since. Anyway, that is the first and last time I am ever gonna back at CS basement. It is so warm, one park at one's own risk (although you pay so much!) and the layout is so complicated. No more CS basement parking for me. Hmph!!!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

My Brilliant Brother

So my only little brother got a camera for his birthday. His birthday was last month, 27th but he got it a couple of weeks ago. He has been wanting and wishing for that camera for a few months, I think. So anyway, I'll get to the brilliant part now.

In conjunction with the annual Pesta Sungai Melaka (Melaka River Festival), the fourth of its kind since it was first organised, many competitions were held. One of which was photography competition.

There were two categories for this one. Adults and the one my brother took part in, students below 18 years of age. Only getting his camera recently, he would be an amateur participant, this would be the first competition he took part in and he would not have possessed the camera taking skills other would. However, with this photo....

...my awesome brother proved that he is brilliant by bagging the FIRST PRIZE. That's it, readers, FIRST PRIZE!!! How awesome is he? Lol.

He even beat his friend who refused to teach him ways to take good pictures. Lol.

Anyway, my brother got his prizes yesterday in a closing ceremony which was supposed to be attended by the Chief Minister but Idk what happened to that guy. So his assistant came and presented my brother with a plague, lots of voucher, a certificate, a hamper, a pair of headphone, a portable Semsonic speakers (which he gave me!) and RM300 cash. AMAZING!!!!! And still no kidnapping my brother! Awesome Maddy Waddy is all mine! =p

And to my mamapo a.k.a. teddy bear, "Keep up the good job and congratulations! Really proud of you here."

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Youth Fest '10

I've been postponing this post for way too long now. Anyway, from 28th to 30th last month, there was a youth festival at PWTC, KL and with TAJMA having a booth there, Yen Pin and I were sent there on duty. Having to be an exhibitioner for the first time, I really didn't know what to expect except the crowd and high levels of noises and I was spot on with those two. Lol.

Anyway, throughout those three days, Yen Pin and I were pretty much bored at most times. When we were at the booth and we just sat there, assisting visitors. We had about over 300 visitors over the weekend. But personally, I've learnt to deal better with people. Keeping one particular father patient was not an easy feat. He was so determined to have all 3 of his kids taking TAJMA profiles but he wasn't so happy with the queue during which talking to him about why it is better to take it at the fest was better (it cost RM38 to take it actually but at the fest, it was FOC) and so on helped.

We did however enjoyed walking around, visiting other booths. There were so many actually. Canon, Wigley's, Ciba Vision, Fly FM, NST, YouthSays, Firefly, Celcom, Rakan Muda and so many more. There was also a Battle of the Bands at a stage outside. Didn't bother listening though. When it comes to Malaysian bands, they can play instruments but not sing. Something they overlook, I suppose. Ask Ma Lee and she would tell you the same. Lol. No offense alright? =) Oh yeah. At NST's booth, they were looking for Mobile Journalist and I signed up for it. I've posted 2 articles so far. Under E4U (that's Entertainment for You) and Sports. I don't know if they are up already or not but do check them out at U-Phoria. I know my byline is. It's under We are MoJos. Read them and comment them or something ok? Best articles of each topic gets RM50 reward each month. So show some love and support! Lol. And at the Firefly's booth, we signed up for a trip to Pangkor Island. But something came up now and I am unable to attend it. =(

Next there was also this whole other hall which was dedicated to sports, dancing and shopping. For sports, there was futsal of course. We saw a few matches. Some were good and some were just ok. There was also basketball, 3 on 3 but I am not a fan. Going back to futsal, there is something interesting. There was this tournament which only needed two players going against each other in a cage. Yen Pin said it reminded her of cockerels fighting. Lol!

Lastly, another section had conferences and concert by Red FM, Hot FM and Fly FM.

Over the three days, UTM fixed us up at Rumah Tamu UTM by the way. It was apartment style and being just the two of us, it gets creepy at night. For me at least. Lol. It had three rooms but we decided to stay together. I don't know if Yen Pin was really scared or she just wanted to calm my fears though. Lol. Everybody knows I am the bigger chicken anyway. =(

Oh yeah! Also at the fest, they had this whole alley with graffiti. It was so cool. They even had someone from Singapore and Australia drawing them.

We also did some adventure of our own during our free time in KL. On our first night there, we managed to walk all the way to KLCC. It took us about 20 minutes. How did we do it? JUST WALK TOWARDS THE BUILDING. Lol. It really worked. The part where we have to cross roads is scary though. People in KL drive so fast!!! I had to always hold Yen Pin's hand too. And she calls me mummy. Hmph! The next night, we ended at KLCC again. This time, we met 3 dinosaurs! Foon Yee, Soo Chen (who is getting thinner that she looks sick!) and May Peng. They actually went to PWTC but we had already left by then. So we decided to meet up at KLCC. We had fun. I've missed them so much since we started our internships. It was just so good to see them. Miss them already! Lol

Well, that's my report for not (I know I still owe one post about my internship! Lol). Anyway, I'll leave you with photos from my trip to KL. Photos are credited to Yen Pin (she is my personal photographer, really). =)